Analysis

This all happened so fast. Frighteningly fast. I was about to meet a friend but he said he was going to choir practice instead. Meanwhile my wife explained she was going to a friend’s for dinner. I’d heard the news ...

I loved this Hamlet ad from back in the day. I remember having it on my wall. It ran just after Ian Botham was banned for smoking a joint. Creative team was Graham Fink and Jeremy Clarke. Neil Dawson is ...

It seems strange to think back only a matter of months when a crisis on the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic was purely the domain of Hollywood movies. But here we are, living a new normal under the cloud of ...

Nike 1992 As some will know, I’ve always been a great supporter of the best that the US ad agencies can produce when they are allowed to. And I mean, when they do it, they really do do it! From ...

New data from Ada, Talon Outdoor’s Out of Home data management platform, shows the dramatic change in population movement during March has now plateaued in April as the nation’s behaviour begins to stabilise. The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has already brought ...

Was this the high water mark of an era in advertising? When big TV campaigns on the biggest stage (the Super Bowl in 2011) could move people and companies? ‘Imported from Detroit’ (aka ‘Born of Fire’) with Eminem from Wieden+Kennedy ...

Happiness is a Cigar called Hamlet They don’t make them like this anymore. Not just due to the end of tobacco advertising, but, more so, because the ‘Happiness is a Cigar Called Hamlet’ series were very much of their time ...

I see that Omnicom’s BBDO, arguably the most successful global creative agency in business terms over the last ten years is axing staff, including New York CCO Greg Hahn. Well we all have to take the pain. After this is ...

BBH’s work for Levi’s made me want to work in advertising. It’s an amazing body of work with so many high points, but if pushed to choose, it would have to be ‘Creek.’ Not the coolest Levi’s ad, not the ...